Facebook fights back, claims Princeton will lose all students by 2021

Not to be outdone by Princeton’s recent paper predicting the death of Facebook by 2017, the social network’s own “scientists” have applied the school’s same robust methodology to, well, Princeton University. In keeping with the same principle of “correlation equals...

IMHO, it sounds like Princeton treats this as if it were a virus. The more people with a virus have contact with those who do not, the more it spreads. As I see it, this viewpoint is not that far off from reality. To me, Facebook is yet another fad. Fads come and fads go just like viruses. Humans have a pack mentality, and keeping up with the Jones' is important to some, and if you are not on Facebook right now, you are just not keeping up with the Jones'. Others, like myself, have no interest in the site, as I could care less about what the Jones' are doing.

Fads fade. Will 80% of the current users stop using it? That is hard to tell. What might make it more difficult to tell if the user base is still as large three years from now is the fact that people might just stop using it without going through the tedious process of "completely" deleting their account. Facebook will almost certainly hang onto every single user account that they possibly can for as long as they can because the more users they have the more money they make, perhaps even if those accounts are no longer actively used.

You know! Looking at those last four dots, they have a steeper decline that points closer to 2015. This is a strong prediction with a 5 year security net.

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How much you want to bet this was Princeton's goal from the beginning. They knew they could get a massive scale of free advertising, if they attacked one of the largest known social organizations. I'd almost be willing to bet the numbers rise again next year because of this.

I think this is very much true. Basing on the fact that Myspace came and it was throttled by facebook. We all know that its more convenient n quick to use Whatsapp, and the likes. So don't be surprised when facebook is replaced in the near future.